48 minSeason 1 • Episode 11
LatestLarusso returns to the force, Quinn reflects on the end of her marriage, Mayor Plank renews her run for the Senate, and a serial rapist outwits detectives.
Cop Rock is an Emmy Award-winning American musical police drama series that aired on ABC in 1990. The show, a police drama presented as a musical, was co-created by Steven Bochco, who also served as executive producer. TV Guide ranked it #8 on TV Guide's List of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list in 2002. The periodical dubbed it "the single most bizarre TV musical of all time."
Production
Bochco's $40 million gamble that destroyed itself gloriously.
Writing
Randy Newman songs about police brutality. Really.
Creators
Steven Bochco, William M. Finkelstein
Anne Bobby
Officer Vicki Quinn
Barbara Bosson
Mayor Louise Plank
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Cmdr. Warren Osborne
David Gianopoulos
Officer Andy Campo
Larry Joshua
Capt. John Hollander
Paul McCrane
Detective Bob McIntyre
James McDaniel
Officer Franklin Rose
Ron McLarty
Det. Lt. Ralph Ruskin
Mick Murray
Det. Joseph Gaines
Peter Onorati
Det. Vincent LaRusso
Ronny Cox
Chief Roger Kendrick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cop Rock's swift death helped kill the '90s TV musical until Glee resurrected the cursed format 19 years later.
The show cost $1.8 million per episode — unheard of then. Six episodes aired before ABC pulled it. The remaining five? Burned off that summer like shame.
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